Architecture Archives - The Architect’s Newspaper https://www.archpaper.com/category/subject/architecture/ The most authoritative voice on architecture and design in the United States. Thu, 23 May 2024 21:27:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 PATTERNS’s medical campus in the San Fernando Valley disrupts the strip mall typology https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/patterns-medical-campus-san-fernando-valley/ Thu, 23 May 2024 20:45:58 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=376670 Victory Boulevard cuts a straight line through the suburban San Fernando Valley. It’s a 20th-century time capsule: a wide swath of asphalt lined by lowrise retail, gas stations, and fast

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WRNS Studio makes space for both high-profile clients and sensitive civic work https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/wrns-studio-high-profile-clients-sensitive-civic-work/ Thu, 23 May 2024 20:35:25 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=376659 WRNS Studio, a 145-person office with locations in San Francisco, Honolulu, New York, and Seattle, is a thought leader when it comes to adaptive reuse and sustainability. The bicoastal firm

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Pratt Institute is contemplating a new building to house the School of Architecture https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/pratt-institute-contemplating-new-building-school-of-architecture/ Thu, 23 May 2024 16:55:41 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=376646 Since 1954, students and faculty of Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture have attended class, built models, and studied in a number of buildings on the Brooklyn campus, most notably Higgins

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Owen Hatherley’s Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects asks “what a new generation of American socialists might learn” from New York and Washington, D.C. https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/owen-hatherley-walking-the-streets-walking-the-projects/ Thu, 23 May 2024 15:27:45 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=375967 Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects: Adventures in Social Democracy in NYC and DC by Owen Hatherley | Repeater Books | $16.95 Describing oneself as a flâneur is a good way

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Greg Esparza pushes the ecological envelope with Cross Cabin in Austin https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/greg-esparza-ecological-envelope-cross-cabin-austin/ Wed, 22 May 2024 20:30:43 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=376561 Designed by Moontower founding co-partner Greg Esparza for his young family, Cross Cabin in Austin prioritizes plant-based products, from its cork-clad, cross-laminated timber enclosure and interior walls to the use

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Amid Gaza protests, Cooper Union thesis students move the End of Year Show off campus https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/amid-gaza-protests-cooper-union-thesis-students-off-campus/ Wed, 22 May 2024 19:18:38 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=376457 For architecture school students, administrators, and faculty members, this year has been… different. As Gaza encampments occupy campuses from Cal Poly to Yale, academia has been forced to react. This

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April’s Architecture Billings Index again reports decline in billings https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/april-architecture-billings-index-again-decline-billings/ Wed, 22 May 2024 18:15:33 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=376531 The AIA’s Architecture Billings Index (ABI) has again reported a decline in billings, while notably not as steep as March (43.6), April saw a score of 48.3—any number lower than

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Cornell AAP appoints Jose Castillo as chair of Department of Architecture https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/cornell-aap-jose-castillo-chair-of-department-architecture/ Wed, 22 May 2024 15:49:03 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=376509 The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) at Cornell University announced today Jose Castillo will lead the school’s Department of Architecture as its next chair. Castillo, a practicing architect

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Portland, Maine city council declassifies landmarked building to make way for its demolition as part of Portland Museum of Art expansion https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/portland-maine-declassifies-landmarked-building-demolition-portland-museum-art-expansion/ Tue, 21 May 2024 18:52:40 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=376465 In Portland, Maine, the city council ruled to declassify 142 Free Street as a historic building. The locally designated structure is sited adjacent to the Portland Museum of Art (PMA)

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STUDIO ENÉE, Annum Architects, and IBA’s design for La CASA is Boston’s new home for Latinx art and community empowerment https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/studio-enee-and-annum-architects-to-design-la-casa-bostons-new-home-for-latinx-art-and-community-empowerment/ Tue, 21 May 2024 18:41:06 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=376466 Back in the day, locals called parts of Boston’s South End “New York Streets” because its tenements resembled those in the Lower East Side. Like its New York counterpart, the

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